Publishers & Aggregators

As an online media publishers and aggregators you are faced with competitive pressures to deliver higher quality content to be able to keep your viewers engaged at the site and not lose them to other sites. The user-generated-content (UGC) is not fully monetizable and the nascent monetizable premium content comes with price. Therefore it is a business imperative to reduce the costs for delivery of all types of content whether it UGC or premium. You are expected to deliver outstanding quality of experience (QoE) to your viewers while minimizing your total cost of ownership (TCO) of your media delivery infrastructure. Also, there are other components in your media ecosystem, therefore you need an open solution that seamlessly interoperates.

The Media Flow Director was built to address the pressures facing providers of video and other digital media due to ever-increasing competition, non-stop growth in traffic and viewers' quality demands.

Media Flow Director offers a suite of functionality - SmoothPlay™ to provide the various levels of quality of experience to your viewers that allows you to provide differentiated service.

It reduces your total cost of delivery because of 10:1 server consolidation and provides the highest performance density in the market.

It has an open architecture and different deployment options for delivering media traffic. The system enables a content publisher to optimize its media delivery strategy across CDNs as well as the publisher's own private delivery network. For example: in a flexible delivery network, the Media Flow Director can serve long-tail content from the origin and the CDN can be used for delivery of hot content from the edge. A private network of this type can boost control, quality, and functionality as well as optimize delivery costs by flexibly directing content across locations and networks.